"Witch Hunt". You'll be hearing that phrase a lot.

McCain: Torture Probe Will Be A "Witch Hunt"

John McCain warned that a pursuit for charges against Bush administration officials who helped design harsh interrogation tactics used on terrorist suspects would turn into a "witch hunt."

Speaking on CBS' The Early Show, the former Vietnam POW and Republican opponent of President Barack Obama in the 2008 election, said there is no evidence that he knows of that shows the officials who approved the tactics weren't giving plausible legal advice.

This will have a "chilling effect on legal counsel," McCain said.

McCain, who was himself tortured as a U.S. soldier by his North Vietnamese captors, was a vocal critic of the Bush administration's treatment of terrorism suspects.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/23/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4963412.shtml

tut, tut, John, you forgot to tack partisan on in front of "witch hunt".

Or 'Criminal Hunt'.

we should make it a DU project.

Because real witch hunters used torture to get "evidence" from the so-called witches.

"This will have a "chilling effect on legal counsel," McCain said."

He misspelled "illegal."

Oh, wait, no...they were clearly just rogue bad apples who deserved jail time.

exists, like actual laws that were broken, is not a witch hunt. But we should expect nothing less from the party of hypocrites.